progressive collapse is a chain reaction of failures propagating throughout a portion of the structure disproportionate to the original local failure occurring when a sudden loss of a critical load‐bearing element initiates a structural element failure, eventually resulting in partial or full collapse of the structure. both general services administration (gsa) and united states department of d...

JAMES K. WILLSON†,§, XIAOFENG GAO†,¶, ZHONGHUA QU†,‖, YI ZHU†,∗∗, YINGSHU LI‡,†† and WEILI WU†,‡‡ †Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas 2601 North Floyd Road, Richardson, TX 75083, USA ‡Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, USA §[email protected] ¶[email protected] ‖[email protected] ∗∗[email protected] ††[email protected] ‡‡weiliw...

A dynamic software risk assessment model is presented. Analogies between dynamic financial analysis and software risk assessment models are established and based on these analogies it suggested that dynamic risk model for software projects is the way to move forward for the risk assessment of software project. It is shown how software risk assessment change during different phases of a software...

A dynamic software risk assessment model is presented. Analogies between dynamic financial analysis and software risk assessment models are established and based on these analogies it suggested that dynamic risk model for software projects is the way to move forward for the risk assessment of software project. It is shown how software risk assessment change during different phases of a software...

☆ We would like to thank Weili Ding, Esther Duflo, Gigi Kremer, Victor Lavy, Steven Lehrer, Patrick McEwan, A Hongliang Zhang, two anonymous reviewers and the se Stanford, Peking University, NEUDC, Oxford and Chinese U helpful comments on the drafts of this paper. Financial sup the University of Macau (Grant SRG009-FSH13-LT) is grate ⁎ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected]...

The process of sperm transport in the female reproductive tract is more than simply a migration of spermatozoa from the site of insemination to the site of fertilization. Rather, it is a complex and dynamic continuum that encompasses phases of sperm distribution within the tract, the accumulation of spermatozoa in reservoirs, the modulation of sperm physiology and acquisition of fertilization c...